Chapter 33: Embroidery and Beatings

After the white fat dumplings are out of the pot and rolled twice, they can be eaten soon. Yuan Anping took a small bowl and poured some balsamic vinegar, his habit is to eat meat dumplings with vinegar to be delicious.

Yuan Anping picked up a dumpling and blew it, then took a bite, "It's delicious!" It's really not like I don't know the difference, thinking of the taste of the dumplings I made before, don't mention it.

Huo Xiaohan saw that he thought it was delicious, and he also smiled and began to eat dumplings.

Yuan Anping dipped in vinegar and ate a dumpling, and then said to Huo Xiaohan: "Today I took in fifteen more students, and they gave me a bunch of things. The most troublesome thing is that the pork, it is too fat, and it is too tired to eat it all the time. I thought I'd wait a few days off and you'd come and help me steam all the meat. I have a recipe that can make the meat steamed fat but not greasy, and it is very delicious. ”

Huo Xiaohan said with a smile: "Brother Anping, I'm afraid you're the only one in our village who says that you eat meat." ”

Yuan Anping touched his nose, "Haha, good luck." ”

Huo Xiaohan nodded: "You are so good, God should give you good luck." ”

Yuan Anping: "Well, I'm a good person, you can eat a bowl of dumplings later." ”

Huo Xiaohan smiled and said, "I think I can eat half a bowl at most." ”

Life is still not salty, but in the past few days, Yuan Fuyuan's family has been very happy. It turned out that he got Yuan Anping's painting that day, and Han Qingmi looked at it and thought it was interesting, so he embroidered a few purses compared to the painting. Although the puppies above are all made of the same mold, they look very different because of the different colors of embroidery thread. Each purse looks particularly interesting, and it is much more eye-catching than the purse of ordinary flowers and plants. Xiao Zhang's looked good, anyway, the purse didn't cost much fabric, and he also made a few, with different colors, and none of the more than a dozen purses were the same, which shows that he was clever. Just in time for the rally, they took out their purses and put them on the table, and they sold out in a short time, and each one was more expensive than usual. The two people who were lively saw that there was a door, so they went home to discuss it with their mother-in-law, and discussed a few interesting paintings with Yuan Anping. Yuan Anping knew that they planned to embroider purses and sell them for money, and the paintings were all cute little animals, several kinds of small flower cats playing, and cute little tigers. Because the other party was trying, he didn't draw much at first. Although there were only a few paintings in total, because they were embroidered in different colors, they rushed for two days and made thirty purses of different shapes. Han Qingmi and Xiao Zhang went to the county seat with expectations, and then returned home full of excitement. handed over a full hundred yuan to Zhang.

Zhang looked at the handful of copper coins and couldn't believe it, "It's all sold?"

Xiao Zhang smiled and nodded, "It's all sold, and it's been sold in more than an hour." The first twenty were all three cents each, and the last ten were sold for four cents each. The girls who came to buy it looked at our purse and liked it. "They are delicate and delicate, with new tricks and natural likability. The family is very profitable and plans to continue to do it.

Han Qingmi said: "I think we have to ask Anping for some pictures, otherwise it will be imitated, and our purse will not sell well." ”

Yuanqiu's daughter-in-law, Fang Shi, also said: "We can also embroider some silk handkerchiefs and try to sell them." ”

Zhang thought about it and asked his eldest son to invite Yuan Anping to her house for dinner.

Yuan Anping saw that he could help their family, just to draw some paintings, so he agreed. In the next time, he drew interesting pictures and asked Yuan Fuyuan to take them back. He also wrote some small poems about love and scenes, and Zhang's embroidered them on silk handkerchiefs and purses, with elegant colors, and sold very well. Some literati who saw Yuan Anping's fonts were good-looking and the poems were wonderful would also buy some and take them back to read. Recently, Yuan Anping painted a number of fat dolls wearing belly pockets, which were also embroidered on the purse, and the young woman liked it very much, and bought it back to please her.

The family was very busy, and invited three women who were familiar with each other to embroider and help embroider purses together, and one purse was given to a literary worker. As for those silk handkerchiefs, because they are more expensive, they do it themselves. Those women earn three or five cents a day, and they are happy to do it. As for later, I knew that the purse was easy to sell, but I didn't think about it. After all, the purse sells well, and it all depends on Yuan Anping's paintings. Pictures that have been imitated by others will not sell for a good price after a few days. So the family is constantly rushing to work, competing for time to make more money. As for the fact that they were busy for a month, they actually earned three taels of silver after calculation, which was really shocking. They felt the importance of literature more directly, and without Yuan Anping's paintings, they would not have been able to make so much money. Then he invited Yuan Anping to have a big meal, of course, this is a later story.

On this day, the weather was cold and the sun could not be seen, Yuan Anping sat on the warm kang bed, looking at the painting of the fat penguin on the kang table holding a broken bowl begging for feeding, very kind. Then he said to Huo Xiaohan, who was sitting opposite: "I heard that the embroidery of Grandma's house sells very well, thanks to my paintings." Why don't I draw a few for you too, you can make some money secretly. ”

Huo Xiaohan took a sip of brown sugar ginger tea while holding the bowl, and shook his head, "Don't paint it for me." I can do average needlework, and I can sew and mend, but I can't do embroidery. "He has been working since he was a child, how can he have that good life to hold the cloth and embroider leisurely.

Yuan Anping wanted to understand the key to it, so he didn't say anything about this topic, "Xiao Han, your birthday is coming soon, do you have anything you particularly want?"

Huo Xiaohan shook his head, "Brother Anping, don't break the bank for me." I come to you every day to eat delicious food, and it feels like the New Year every day. "He was content with a day like this.

Yuan Anping knew that he couldn't ask what he wanted, so he said, "Then do you have anything you particularly want to eat?" ”

Huo Xiaohan thought for a while, and said with some embarrassment: "I want to eat oil cakes, which are the kind of oil cakes with some chopped green onions in the middle and fried in the pot with a crispy skin." I've eaten it once before and thought it was particularly delicious. ”

Yuan Anping said with a smile: "Oil cakes, what I made is definitely not delicious." In order not to abuse your stomach on your birthday, you have to do it yourself. Let the little birthday star make the food by himself, I feel guilty. ”

Huo Xiaohan didn't care about this: "What does it matter if you do it yourself, just have something to eat." ”

Yuan Anping shrugged his nose, "The rice in the pot is stuffy, let's eat." I'll serve the food, and you can sit on the bed and wait for it. ”

Huo Xiaohan looked at Yuan Anping who went out with a smile and leaned on the quilt behind him. During the day, he can only feel happy and relaxed when he spends time with Yuan Anping. Don't worry about being beaten and scolded, don't worry about endless work. Sometimes he can't help but wonder if it's normal for people to live like this.

As soon as Yuan Anping entered the house with the food, he saw Huo Xiaohan leaning on the quilt, looking at the roof in a daze, surrounded by a faint sadness. sighed in his heart, without coming out of that house, this boy would not be able to be truly happy. But getting out of that house wasn't that easy. He deliberately said in a very cheerful tone: "The rice is here, steaming white rice, fragrant braised pork ribs." It's so fragrant, it makes people drool when they look at it. ”

Huo Xiaohan sat up with a smile, took the dishes, and put them on the table. Yuan Anping put the tray aside, sat on the bed, and put a piece of pork ribs in Huo Xiaohan's bowl, "Let's eat." ”

Speaking of which, the main purpose of every meeting between Yuan Anping and Huo Xiaohan is to eat, discuss what to eat, cook together, and chat by the way. A dead house that doesn't go out when there's nothing to do, and a pitiful little one who is busy all day long and doesn't have the heart to pay attention to other people's affairs, the two naturally don't talk about other people's gossip when they meet together, but they still have something to say.

After Huo Xiaohan finished eating, he dragged it out until he had to leave, and reluctantly said goodbye to Yuan Anping. Yuan Anping saw that he was frozen and shrunk his neck, and took out a scarf for him to wear, of course, this scarf is not a thing in the space, but made of cotton cloth, and it looks very good after Xiao Zhang's hands.

"Slow down on the road. ”

"Well, I'm leaving. Reluctantly glanced at him, Huo Xiaohan ran away quickly.

Yuan Anping stood at the gate of the courtyard and thought about things for a while before closing the door and putting the latch.

Here, Huo Xiaohan ran home against the cold wind, and when he entered the courtyard door, he saw Huo Xiangxiang open the curtain and walk out.

"Fourth brother, come over and I'll tell you something. ”

Huo Xiaohan wondered how Huo Xiangxiang talked to herself, and guessed in her heart what she wanted her to help.

Huo Xiangxiang looked at Huo Xiaohan, whose backbone in front of him seemed to be upright, and felt disgusted, feeling that he, the fourth brother, really shouldn't be reincarnated in his own family. On weekdays, she didn't bother to talk to Huo Xiaohan, but if she asked him about something today, she would condescend to stop Huo Xiaohan.

"Fourth brother, haven't you been sending firewood to Yuan Anping's house these days? Can you talk to him?"

When Huo Xiaohan heard her ask, he knew that she was beating Yuan Anping's idea, so he immediately became vigilant in his heart, and replied cautiously: "I said a word or two." ”

Huo Xiangxiang smiled when she heard this, and said as a matter of course: "It's good if you can talk, then you can help me ask him for a painting of embroidery tomorrow." She didn't care if Huo Xiaohan's friendship with Yuan Anping was good enough to ask the other party to paint, so she directly made a request. As for Huo Xiaohan being embarrassed, she didn't care.

Huo Xiaohan immediately refused, saying, "I'm not familiar with him, I don't want to come." ”

Huo Xiangxiang's face immediately fell, "Aren't you familiar with it?" Anyway, I don't care what you do, you have to ask me for a sub-painting!"

Huo Xiaohan still shook his head, "If I don't come, he won't give it to me." ”

Huo Xiangxiang saw that he dared to refuse himself, and his voice rose, "What do you say! If I ask you to ask for it, you have to ask for it for me." You didn't even try, so you said you were going to come, why are you so useless!"

Liu Shi heard that his little daughter was angry, and immediately rushed out, and slapped Huo Xiaohan directly without asking the reason, "You useless thing, you are so bold and fat, dare to make Xiangxiang angry! I don't want to live, do you?!" said and raised his voice and scolded, "You broom star, stirring up the family spirit, what kind of disaster has you made in the family, you still bully Xiangxiang! You are her brother, how can you bully your sister! Xiangxiang is such a beautiful and well-behaved girl, you still bully her, you must be jealous of her." Your heart and liver are all black!Oh, I'm so miserable that I gave birth to such a vicious thing as you......"

Huo Xiaohan was also used to it, he didn't shout injustice or pain, so he just stood with his head bowed, and when Liu finished scolding, he said without emotion: "I'm worried that Yuan Anping will be annoyed, and he is unwilling to accept our firewood." If you don't care, I'll go and ask him for a painting tomorrow. ”

When Liu heard that there was no money to collect, he felt that it was not worth it for a painting, so he said to Huo Xiaohan with a cold face: "Don't go to the kitchen to work, your heart is black, and you are lazy, I see who dares to ask you in the future!" and then went to comfort her daughter gently.

Huo Xiaohan didn't care, his mother had already habitually poured dirty water on him, and if he cared, he wouldn't be alive today. I went into the kitchen and touched my hot face, not knowing if I would be able to reduce the swelling tomorrow.

Yuan Shi looked out and saw that his mother-in-law and sister-in-law had entered the house, so he whispered: "You just want a picture for her, can you be beaten like this?"

Huo Xiaohan squatted down and added firewood to the bottom of the pot, "If you can paint today, you can ask for something else tomorrow." "Those people know best how to get an inch.

The Yuan clan also knew this truth, but he felt that since he was protected by someone, he couldn't suffer that sin. She also knew that Yuan Anping's paintings could make money, but she didn't know how to embroider, so she didn't think much.